§16-4C-19.Obstructing or causing bodily injury to emergency
medical service personnel; criminal penalties.
(a) It is unlawful for any person to intentionally obstruct or
interfere with any emergency medical service agency personnel
engaged in the act of delivering or administering emergency medical
services. Any person violating the provisions of this subsection
is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be
fined not more than one thousand dollars or confined in the county
or regional jail for a period not more than one year, or both fined
and confined.

(b) It is unlawful for any person to willfully cause bodily
injury to any person designated to be an emergency medical
personnel engaged in the act of delivering or administering
emergency medical services. Any person violating the provisions of
this subsection is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof,
shall be confined in a state correctional facility not less than
one nor more than ten years or fined not more than five thousand
dollars, or both fined and confined.

(c) Nothing in this section may be construed to prevent
law-enforcement officials from controlling traffic and otherwise
maintaining order at the scene of an accident, injury or illness
where an emergency medical service agency is rendering services.

(d) No person may willfully fail or refuse to comply with a
lawful order or direction of any emergency medical service agency
personnel engaged in the act of delivering or administering emergency medical services, relating to directing, controlling or
regulating traffic, so long as such order or direction is conveyed
by a retro-reflective hand signing device. Any person violating
the provisions of this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor and,
upon conviction thereof: (1) For a first offense shall be fined
not more than one hundred dollars; (2) for a second offense
occurring within one year of a previous conviction shall be fined
not more than two hundred dollars; and (3) for a third and
subsequent offense shall be fined not more than five hundred
dollars.